Christopher Steg v. James Johnson

657 F. App'x 206

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: October 3, 2016
• Docket: 16-1654
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM:

Christopher and Cayla Steg appeal the district courfis order dismissing their civil action. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. 1 The district court properly dismissed the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012) claim on the grounds that the defendants were immune from such claims, see Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, 356-57, 98 S.Ct. 1099, 55 L.Ed.2d 331 (1978) (judges entitled to absolute immunity un less acing in “clear absence of jurisdiction”); Dababnah v. Keller-Burnside, 208 F.3d 467, 470 (4th Cir. 2000) (“A prosecutor enjoys absolute immunity for prosecu-torial functions intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.” (internal quotation marks omitted)); Fleming v. Asbill, 42 F.3d 886, 889 (4th Cir. 1994) (guardians ad litem immune from § 1983 claims for actions- “occurr[ing] within the judicial process”), or were not acting under color of state law. Additionally, the court correctly rejected federal civil conspiracy claim and did not err in declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claims. Accordingly, we affirm.

We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

1 . After the district court issued its order and judgment, which relied in part on the Rook-er-Feldman doctrine, we issued an opinion clarifying the narrow scope of the doctrine. Thana v. Bd. of License Commissioners for Charles Cty., Md., 827 F.3d 314 (4th Cir. 2016). However, because the district court provided alternate and sufficient bases for rejecting all of the Stegs’ claims, we find it unnecessary to consider whether the court’s Rooker-Feldman analysis is in line with Thana.